Junior doctors have knowingly killed people. It's time to say the unspeakable – Renee Hoenderkamp

Just to recap the assault on taxpayers and patients that these militant doctors have waged, they have been on strike eleven times since they started this money grab, and conservative estimates are that this resulted in 1.5 million cancelled appointments. And then there are deaths.

No one wants to talk about the unspeakable; that doctors took actions that they knew would kill people, but we must.

It's difficult to directly attribute the deaths of very ill people to one thing, but a look at excess deaths shows a record number of excess deaths in 2023 when doctors went on strike for 38 days.

Nearly 53,000 more people died in 2023 than normal – the highest figure recorded in a non-pandemic year since the Second World War, a Telegraph analysis showed. Draw your own conclusions, but something happened.

So they said it wasn’t about the money. That was and still is a lie. They say they need their pay restored to 2008 levels – most of them weren’t even doctors in 2008, so it’s a nonsense comparator and actually they have been shown by the Nuffield Trust, not known for its right leaning stance, that if they took a more sensible previous year - say a decade ago when most were at least doctors or training to be doctors - then they have actually had an uplift on those doctors. But of course, that doesn’t fit their narrative.

And the minute this awful Government came to power, they quickly demonstrated what they have by now shown us repeatedly, that they couldn’t negotiate their way out of a wet paper bag.

The first act of the Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, was to cave in to the new momentum replacement, the BMA union.

Leftie militants and activists have taken that once gentleman’s club, the epitome of the sublime, to the ridiculous, and as Marxist unions do, they did what Nye Bevan famously described as stuffing those doctors’ mouths with gold.

You will no doubt recall Wes talking tough on the NHS; no extra money without reform. Well, he didn’t attach any strings to the Junior Doctors when he instantly gave them the entire additional 22 per cent they were demanding, and they literally laughed all the way to the bank.

Then, leaks immediately surfaced from their militant collective WhatsApp groups showing them very clearly saying that they would wait until the government was weak and come back for more.. and that moment is here. Today they voted for more strike action.

They have already been given an inflation-busting 5.4 per cent rise this year, which is more than the consultants and nurses, but that isn’t good enough. They want a further 29 per cent! Still harping on about pay restoration back to 2008, they have proven that it's just about money, it's not about patient safety, recruitment or retention, it's about money for them, and I would go further and say it's about collapsing the NHS in order to collapse society as we know it.

It is important to know that doctors' numbers have been steadily rising. There were 54,000 doctors in the UK in 1995 and 146,000 in 2024. And this increase has been tightly controlled by the very BMA, demanding more money due to overwork and underpay.

The BMA resisted increased training places for doctors in case it diluted the pay… infact there are at least 4 applicants, almost all grade A students, for every medical school place every year.

So, this job is so bad, so underpaid that we disappoint 75 per cent of all those clever young students who would love to be one.

Don’t get me wrong, there is a problem for doctors in the NHS. They are an undervalued workforce who are treated poorly by their employer, and many are disillusioned and unhappy at work.

They do not work longer hours than the doctors of the past, whose pay they are seeking restoration. They don’t work harder. But they have less appreciation and ‘perks’ from their employer. They have nowhere to rest.

The doctors' sleeping quarters have more or less gone. I used to sleep in a room in an empty office building in a psychiatric hospital. The last time I did an overnight on call, there was no lock on my door. I used to wedge my bed up against the door. That isn’t safe and doesn’t make a young female doctor feel valued. They have nowhere decent to eat.

My other half used to have his food cooked for him in the doctor's canteen, and if they got called to an emergency, it was all reproduced fresh when they returned.

Now, they are lucky if there is a working vending machine full of unhealthy food. There are no lockers to call their own. They change jobs every four to six months, so nobody will raise these concerns; it's not worth the trouble.

The respect from colleagues, such as nurses, has gone. They often chastise and mock the juniors. Patients can be equally abusive. And there is no one to listen to their issues and change things. So no, things are not rosy. But no amount of pay increase is going to change this, and if you don’t have a happy workforce as an employer, then you have nothing and can achieve nothing. So there is some blame here for this disillusioned workforce that has now decided they are going to go for the jugular. It’s a wicked combination.

I have not had a pay rise for nine years. Why? Because I love my job. I am self-employed and I haven’t asked for one. I love the work I do, and I am well paid.

I would rather be part of the family that is the small practice in which I work and enjoy my time practising the art that I always dreamt of, than perhaps make myself appear greedy and overpriced when I really am not badly paid. Could I get more, definitely, but I didn’t become a doctor for the money.

Wes cannot afford to give in again. The taxpayer can’t afford it. Patients can’t afford for them to strike. If they have a scintilla of humanity for people who are at their most vulnerable, they won’t strike.

But I fear they will strike, and this says much about the ideology of the Marxist infiltration of the BMA.